LONDON — Arkansas Nuclear One officials said Thursday evening it will take "several weeks" to restart the facility's reactor, Unit 2, that was knocked offline when a 550-ton generator stator fell while it was being moved Sunday.

"Ultimately, we are committed to restoring both units at ANO to full power operations,” site vice president Jeremy Browning said in a statement. “We have augmented our team with both corporate staff and outside experts for the methodical process of inspection and assessment to ensure we fully understand what happened over the weekend, and that our restart is conducted safely.”

Officials said evaluating the damage to Unit 1, which had been offline since March 24 for refueling, and repairing the reactor "will take more time."

Really? The last line of this article says something about repairing the reactor. That kind of junk is what makes it nearly impossible for people outside the industry to think anything other than the worst about it. This was part of the generator, the part that turns round and round to make electricity, just like any power plant. This is the same as any coal, oil, gas etc plant which all have generators that have to turn round and round to generate electricity. The sad part about this is anybody can look this up on the web today and see the info for themselves. No officials said anything about repairing the reactor. The media is ripe with bad information.